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SUMMARY:Katie Ford with Katie Peterson / If You Have to Go
DESCRIPTION:Booksmith hosts a special evening with Katie Ford\, to celebrate her new poetry collection If You Have to Go. Joining her for a reading and conversation is the poet Katie Peterson! Please join us. \n  \nThe poems in Katie Ford’s fourth collection implore their audience—the divine and the human—for attention\, for revelation\, and\, perhaps above all\, for companionship. The extraordinary sequence at the heart of this book taps into the radical power of the sonnet form\, bending it into a kind of metaphysical and psychological outcry. Beginning in the cramped space of selfhood—in the bedroom\, cluttered with doubts\, and in the throes of marital loss—these poems edge toward the clarity of “what I can know and admit to knowing.” In song and in silence\, Ford inhabits the rooms of anguish and redemption with scouring exactness. This is poetry that “can break open\, // it can break your life\, it will break you // until you remain.” If You Have to Go is Ford’s most luminous and moving collection. \n  \n\n  \n“In every poem in If You Have to Go\, Katie Ford risks seeing—she must\, because from her first book onward\, but never more so than here\, her poems have been poems that have seen. Here\, Ford has seen the end of a marriage\, and in her great refusal to make the world weep as she weeps\, she finds herself at times almost unbearably at odds with a world she sees unchanged by her suffering\, and so she sees the world—‘everyone thrashes / against a wall / in this life.’ Ford becomes stronger with each book\, and is among the best poets of our generation.” – Shane McCrae \n  \n“With the publication of her first book\, Katie Ford established herself as a distinct and powerful voice in American poetry\, and in subsequent books her aesthetic has evolved of necessity to meet the demands of new urgencies. Here\, she goes to the bottom of loss to explore the relationship between uncertainty\, desire\, and belief as well as the relationship between faith in the human and faith in a God. At times it seems that only the careful speaking of the heart-made thought stands between this speaker and an abyss. This is a complex\, riveting\, and heartbreaking book.” – Jane Mead \n  \n\n  \nKatie Ford is the author of three previous poetry collections: Blood Lyrics\, Colosseum\, and Deposition. The recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Reading Prize\, she teaches at the University of California\, Riverside. Katie’s author photo was taken by Helge Brekke. \n  \n  \nKatie Peterson is the author of four books of poetry\, This One Tree\,Permission\, and The Accounts. Her fourth collection\, A Piece of Good News\, will be published by FSG in February 2019. The winner of the Rilke Prize in Poetry from the University of North Texas\, she is Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of California\, Davis. Katie’s author photo was taken by Jackson Frishman. \n  \n\n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
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LOCATION:The Booksmith\, 1644 Haight St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Clara Bingham in conversation with Charles Kaiser
DESCRIPTION:Monday\, September 24\, 7:30pm\nPegasus Books Downtown \nFifty years later\, Clara Bingham and Charles Kaiser reflect on 1968: a year which shaped a generation and proved a hinge point in history. \nClara Bingham’s Witness to the Revolution is a riveting story of America in the turbulent year when the 60s ended\, and the nation teetered on the edge of revolution. As the 1960s drew to a close\, the United States was coming apart at the seams. The death toll in Vietnam was approaching fifty thousand\, and the ascendant counterculture was challenging nearly every aspect of American society — from work\, family\, and capitalism to sex\, science\, and gender relations. Witness to the Revolution\, Clara Bingham’s unique oral history of that tumultuous time\, unveils anew that moment when America careened to the brink of a civil war at home\, as it fought a long\, futile war abroad. \nCharles Kaiser’s 1968 in America is widely recognized as one of the best historic accounts of the 1960s. Largely based on unpublished interviews and documents (including in-depth conversations with anti-war presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and Dylan)\, this is compulsively readable popular history. Now\, fifty years later\, and with a new introduction by Hendrik Hertzberg\, it is even more clear that this was a uniquely terrible\, wonderful\, and pivotal year in the story of America. \nFree to attend. \n    \nABOUT THE AUTHORS \nCharles Kaiser\, the author of 1968 in America\, has been a reporter at The New York Times\, The Wall Street Journal\, and Newsweek. He has also written for Vanity Fair\, New York\, and The Washington Post. He has taught journalism at Columbia and Princeton\, and is the author of The Gay Metropolis\, a history of gay life in New York City since 1940. \nClara Bingham is the author of Class Action: The Landmark Case That Changed Sexual Harassment Law (with Laura Leedy Gansler) and Women on the Hill: Challenging the Culture of Congress. She is a former NewsweekWhite House correspondent\, and her writing has appeared in Vanity Fair\, Vogue\, Harper’s Bazaar\, Talk\, The Washington Monthly\, Ms.\, and other publications. Bingham produced the 2011 documentary The Last Mountain. She lives in Manhattan and Brooklyn with her husband\, three children\, and three stepchildren.\n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nMonday\, September 24\, 2018 – 7:30pm to 8:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nPegasus Books Downtown\n2349 Shattuck Ave\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94704
URL:https://litseen.com/event/clara-bingham-in-conversation-with-charles-kaiser/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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